armed with facts? ha

"When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion."

Author: Phyllis McGinley

Obama...he’s “really good at killing people”...

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2015/02/03/guest-column-gerald-celente-america-murder-inc/

Perhaps Ms. Obama had found a soft spot in her heart for Mr. Kyle because he closely reflects the words and deeds of her husband. In his book, American Sniper, Kyle wrote that killing is “fun,” something he “loved.” In the book “DoubleDown,” authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann  wrote that President Obama bragged that he’s “really good at killing people” while discussing drone strikes with his staff

The evil of (selective) socialism...

 The attitude of Owen Young, who was GE Chairman between 1922 and 1939 (and returned in 1942-45), went something like this: “[S]tockholders are confined to a maximum return equivalent to a risk premium. The remaining profit stays in the enterprise, is paid out in higher wages, or is passed on to the customer.” The aforementioned Jack Welch, on the other hand, considered “the shareholder as king—the residual claimant, entitled to the [whole] pot of earnings.”

This single-minded philosophy has been enormously destructive for everyone who isn’t a shareholder, whether they be wage earners, customers, the environment, communities, etc. In this form of management, economic gains go solely to the shareholders—many of whom are only short-term investors—rather than being distributed among all stakeholders, particularly employees, as was common throughout the 20th century. For shareholders and executives, workers are expendable and people are little more than potential consumers (or debtors).

Of course, whether this philosophy has undermined the moral fabric of America is subjective; but one doesn’t have to be a socialist to recognize that it leads to the kind of greed and fraudulent behavior that helped cause the 2008-09 financial crisis.

Source: http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/bernie-sanders-vs-plutocracy-why-general-electrics-ceo-lashing-out-democratic

Unarmed Palestinian teen shot, beaten by Israeli officers in Jerusalem

source: http://www.albawaba.com/news/unarmed-palestinian-teen-shot-beaten-israeli-officers-jerusalem-824456

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian teen in the back of the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet while he was walking to school in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday morning, his family told Ma’an.

Yasin Abu Mayyala said his son Hatim, 13, was taken from the Ras al-Amoud area in Silwan, where he was shot, to Hadassah Hospital in the West Jerusalem neighborhood of Ein Kerem, where medics said he suffered from a deep wound that needed recquired stitches.

The boy was suffering from nausea and vomiting, Abu Mayyala said.

source: http://www.albawaba.com/news/unarmed-palestinian-teen-shot-beaten-israeli-officers-jerusalem-824456

PLO demands UN investigation into ‘Hebron execution’

source: http://www.albawaba.com/news/plo-demands-un-investigation-%E2%80%98hebron-execution%E2%80%99-822562

The Palestinian leadership on Monday requested that the UN open an investigation into Israeli forces' "extrajudicial executions," after a soldier's gruesome killing of a wounded Palestinian was captured on camera in Hebron last week.

PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat said in a statement that he made the request during a meeting with UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov.

He said that while Israel had announced its own investigation into the "brutal execution" of Abed al-Fattah al-Sharif in Hebron on Thursday, "historic facts" cast doubt on Israeli investigations, which he said had "yet to serve justice."

Erekat alleged that since the killing of 18-year-old Hadeel Hashlamon in Hebron last September, there had been "207 cases of Israeli extrajudicial killings of Palestinians."

source: http://www.albawaba.com/news/plo-demands-un-investigation-%E2%80%98hebron-execution%E2%80%99-822562

Impunity and cold blooded killing...state sponsored??

At 972 Magazine, Dahlia Scheindlin called Netanyahu’s response a “strange string of lies.” A report released by Amnesty International in February 2014found that Israel is killing and wounding Palestinians with impunity, including children. Those findings were soon followed by Israel’s 51-day military assault on the Gaza strip, in which it killed at least 2,145 Palestinians, the vast majority civilians and at least 578 of them children.

According to Defense for Children International – Palestine, at least 28 Palestinian children were “fatally shot by Israeli forces in 2015,” due in part to Israel’s implementation of a shoot-to-kill policy in response to rising tensions and resistance

Source: http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/heres-what-happens-when-us-senator-calls-israel-be-held-accountable-atrocities